'''''Grave Robbers from Outer Space''''' is a card game released by Z-Man Games spoofing the making of low-budget horror movies. The idea is to have the highest Defensive Strength when someone plays a ''Roll The Credits'' card or the draw pile is empty. Defensive Strength is increased by playing ''Character'' (such as ''The Prom Queen'' or ''The Aged Vampire Hunter'') cards into your "movie" and giving characters ''Props'' like ''The Chainsaw'' or ''Big-Ass 'Fro'', and from ''Location'' cards (''The Funhouse'', ''Camp Lake Zirconia'', etc.) Other players try to lower each others' defense by killing characters with ''Creatures'' (''Dracula,'' ''Demonic God Up to No Good'', ''Killer Vegetables,'' etc.), negative Locations, and using ''Special Effects'' cards that can be used to perform things like doubling a Creature's strength or destroying another player's Location.

Basically if someone made a card game based on this wiki, [[{{Troperiffic}} this would be it]].

So far the series is made up of nine games, each covering a different genre of movies:

''Grave Robbers from Outer Space'' makes fun of horror and sci-fi movies like ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' ("Grave Robbers from Outer Space" was that film's original title), ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', ''Film/{{Carrie|1975}}'', ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'', The UniversalHorror series, and ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes''. ''Grave Robber's 2: Skippy's Revenge'' is an expansion with more horror/sci-fi. ''Grave Robbers 3'' is scheduled for release near the end of 2009.

''Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom'' makes fun of pulp-style jungle movies like ''Film/KingKong'', ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', ''AllanQuatermain'' and ''{{Tarzan}}''.

----!!''GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace'' provides examples of:* AmbiguousGender: The Way Too Pretty Elf from ''Berserker Halfings'' has the Male trait, but his special thing is that cards that normally only work on females also work on him.* AntagonistTitle: All the games are named after the most powerful Creature card they contain.* ChainmailBikini: In ''Berserker Halflings''.* ChineseVampire* TheChosenOne: The Predestined Hero from ''Berserker Halflings''.* DeathBySex: A few cards let you cause this to happen to your opponent's Characters, including Only the Virgin Survives and Let's Go Skinny Dipping.* DistressedDamsel: From ''Scurvy Musketeers.''* EldritchAbomination: The Demonic God Up To No Good from ''Berserker Halflings,'' who's about as tough as Creatures get and gets nastier for every magical Character he's attacking.* EvilVizier: The Grand Vizier in ''Berserker Halflings''. Complete with flavor text asking [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter why the King even trusts this guy]].* FurBikini: There's a card in ''Cannibal Pygmies'' that assumes all the women in your movie are wearing these by the end of the game, and they're worth extra points.* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: In ''Bushwhackin' Varmints''.* HumongousMecha: In, where else, ''Kung-Fu Samurai''.* IAmNotLeftHanded: "Why are you smiling?"* MixAndMatch: Arguably the real fun of the games comes from them being completely compatible with each other and shuffling the different decks together for truly chaotic games.* NeverSayDie: While the other games describe the act of removing characters from play as killing them, the Christmas game just calls them "removed."* OfCorsetsSexy* PimpDuds: In ''Bell-Bottomed Badasses''* ThePowerOfActing: Making another player's character a "3rd-Rate Actor" lowers their Defense.* {{Pun}}: Several cards have them in flavor text. For example, on a Crossbow, "What's a crossbow?" "Like a regular bow, but angrier."* RedShirt: "The Guy Everyone Knows Will Get Killed" from ''Grave Robbers'' and "The Guy Who Dies to Remind Everyone This Isn't a Picnic" from ''Berserker Halflings''. They have to be killed before anyone else.** The Security Guard will always be killed first if Zombies attack.* RunningGag: Nearly every game has a card with "Say, is that a tentacle?" in the flavor text. Every game has a Skippy the Wonder Dog card, though in a few he's one of the Creatures. There's also generally a priest or occult-knowledgeable character who gets extra defense against "Supernatural" Creatures.* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: ''Bell-Bottomed Badasses'' has the "Huge Wad Of Cash" card which can cancel any other card by being given to the player using the offending card.* ShoutOut: It'd be easier to list what ''isn't'', though one of the more noticeable shout outs is that the Guy Who Dies To Remind Everyone This Isn't a Picnic is obviously meant to be [[LordOfTheRings Boromir]].* StatingTheSimpleSolution: This, on the Killer Toys card:-->"It's a ''doll''. Why don't we just kick it across the room?"-->"You can do that?"* StopMotion: The only actual "monsters" in ''Scurvy Musketeers'''s Creature selection are a stop motion sea serpent and a generic stop motion mythological creature.* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks-->'''"Hey Pierre, what's that little bitty sword going to do to me all the way over there?"'''-->'''WHOOSH, THUD!'''-->'''"Who knew you could throw a sword?"'''* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes* YouAllMeetInAnInn* YouFailHistoryForever: Subverted with the Re-interpreted Historical Figure Who [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Probably Wasn't As Evil As All This]] in ''Scurvy Musketeers''.* ZorroMark--> '''"What is that, senor?"'''--> '''"It's a 'Z'."'''--> '''"Look more like a '2' to me."'''----